Chapter 1 The Period
Dickens emphasizes the juxtaposition of the poor, suffering peasants and the wealthy aristocrats in France. He also describes the ineffective, corrupt justice system in England and how it leads to crime and fear. He touches on fate and death, symbolized by the Woodman and the Farmer.
Chapter 2 The Mail
A mail coach climbs a hill during the night and all the passengers are uneasy and fearful of highwaymen. Jerry Cruncher rides up on a horse with a message for a passenger: Mr Lorry. The message says to wait at Dover for a woman and he replies “Recalled to Life.”
Chapter 3 The Night Shadows
Lorry imagines digging up the man from the grave after his 18 years of death and repeatedly simulates a conversation in his head asking whether the man wishes to be alive. Dickens also emphasizes the secrecy of the individual and how one can never be truly understood.
Chapter 4 The Preparation
Mr Lorry relaxes in the lounge and takes a stroll on the beach as he waits for Lucie. When she arrives, he introduces himself as a man of business but discusses his loving act of bringing Lucie to england 18 years ago and that he is to do the same with Doctor Manette. Red Mrs Pross also comes and screams at Mr Lorry.
Chapter 5 The Wine-Shop
Outside a wine shop in St Antionette there is chaos over spilled wine, after which people resume life as normal despite the word “blood” stained on the wall. Inside, Madame Defarge knits in the corner as Monsieur Defarge sends Lucie, Lorry, and the three ‘Jacques’ upstairs to a secret room. There, they find Doctor Manette cobbling shoes
Chapter 6 The Shoemaker
Doctor Manette is distant and hopeless, muttering only the number of his prison cell. Lucie, however, brings him to tears with her golden hair. They smuggle Doctor Manette out of France and Lorry asks him if wants to be recalled to life; he answers “I can’t say.”
Book 2
Chapter 1 Five Years Later
Tellson's Bank is described as a perfectly old and inconvenient place. Jerry Cruncher is characterized as drunk and angry, as he abuses his wife for praying. Dickens foreshadows his grave digging with the rust on Cruncher’s hands.
Chapter 2 A Sight
Jerry delivers a message to Mr Lorry in the Old Baily, where charles Darnay is on trial for treason. The court wants to see him quartered, except Lucie, who touches the crowd’s heart with her expression of compassion.
Chapter 3 A Disappointment
The attorney general states the accusation of Darnay as a spy using the two ‘patriot’ witnesses, John Basard and Roger Cly. Stryver discredits the witnesses, but ends up winning the case after Carton points out his own resemblance to Darnay. Lucie also describes Darnay’s kindness to her on the ship to England and Carton takes interest in Lucie too.
Chapter 4 Congratulatory
Mr Stryver congratulates himself on the verdict as everyone else congratulates Darnay’s resurrection. Carton and Darnay to out to dinner where Darnay thanks the drunk Carton who is characterized and imagines all that he could have been through Darnay.
Chapter 5 The Jackal
Carton is characterized further as he works “with” (more like for) the arrogant lion, Stryver. They discuss Stryver’s interest in Lucie, whom Carton pretends to dismiss. Carton, after drinking his sorry away returns home and cries himself to bed.
Chapter 6 Hundreds of People
Mr Lorry comes to visit the Manette home, where he engages Mrs Pross in a long conversation about Doctor Manette. Darnay, Carton, and Stryver come and Darnay recalls the word ‘dig’ and the burnt message found beneath a dungeon in the tower of London. After Dr Manette freaks out, they go inside where the echos of a storm foreshadow the coming revolution.
Chapter 7 Monseigneur In Town
Marquis Evremonde angrily leaves extravagant aristocratic party where he was not treated as god. He makes himself feel powerful by running over Gaspard’s baby in the street. Paying for the debt with one gold coin, Madame Defarge knits him in and Monsieur Defarge throws another gold coin back at him.
Chapter 8 Monseigneur In the Country
Marquis travels through the countryside where peasants are more submissive. They warn him of a stole away he brought from the town underneath his carriage. A woman begs for a stone for her husband, and tells the Marquis of the people’s suffering. Marquis Evremonde does not care.
Chapter 9 The Gorgon’s Head (Evil Greek Mythological head with snake hair, turns folk stone)
Marquis Evremonde eats dinner with his nephew Charles Darnay, who have a mutual hatred for each other. Marquis shows interest in Darnay’s relationship with the Manettes. Darnay leaves France and the family reputation of fear behind. The Marquis is discovered stone dead in the morning.
Chapter 10 Two Promises
Darnay is living as a French language tutor in England a year later; he talks to Doctor Manette about his love for Lucie and aspirations for marriage. He will not get between Lucie and the Doctor. The Doctor promises not to sway Lucie and Darnay not to reveal his French past; Doctor Manette is found cobbling that night.
Chapter 11 A Companion Picture
Mr Stryver announces he plans to give Lucie the gift of his marriage. He slowly breaks the news to Mr Carton, and his selfishness blinds him to the sarcastic replies of Mr Carton. Mr Carton drinks more sorrows away and Mr Stryver refuses to sacrifice his success.
Chapter 12 The Fellow of Delicacy
On his way to propose Stryver stops by Mr Lorry at Tellson’s. Stryver lets Lorry go first to find if Lucie would accept his proposal. Mr Lorry uses his business negotiation skills and closeness to the Manette family to carefully persuade arrogant Mr Stryver to abandon his aspirations.
Chapter 13 The Fellow of No Delicacy
Carton opens himself up to Lucie, stating that he is unworthy of her love, despite his deep love for her. She sparks dreams of what he could have become and he rejects Lucie’s proposal that there is still potential in him to aspire into more.
Chapter 14 An Honest Tradesman
A funeral procession passes Jerry Cruncher; a mob surrounds it yelling “spies!”, though nobody really knows why they are happy Roger Cly died. The mob also attacks businesses. That night, Mr Cruncher goes to dig up the coffin and his son follows. The son is terrified the coffin is following him so runs home and wakes up to Cruncher beating his mother; he also asks what a resurrection man is.
Chapter 15 Knitting
A Mender of Roads who witnessed Gaspard killing the Marquis meets with the Defarges and the three Jaques; he describes the brutal hanging above the village fountain. Mousiour Defarge mentions a petition to the King; Madame defarge knits the Evremonde family to “shrouds”. They take the Mender to a royal parade, where he cheers.
Chapter 16 Still Knitting
The Defarges learn of a new spy, John Barsad of england; he is knitted in. They acknowledge they could be dead when the lightning/earthquake revolution ignites. Basard comes into the wine shop and only gets a twitch out of Monsieur Defarge when mentioning Darnay and Lucie; Darnay gets knitted in!
Chapter 17 One Night
Dr Manette and Lucie talk emotionally about their life beneath a tree. The Doctor is so happy to see Lucie so happy and Lucy promises Darnay will not get between the two of them. Doctor Manette’s abandoning of that desire for vengeance while imprisoned has resulted in a great future ahead.
Chapter 18 Nine Days
Darnay and Lucie leave for vacation, but just before hand, Darnay tells the Doctor of his French heritage behind closed doors. He cobbles for 9 days and Mrs. Pross and Mr Lorry struggle to care for him. Mr Lorry even takes time away from Tellson’s for the first time in forever.
Chapter 19 An Opinion
Doctor Manette returns to sanity and Mr Lorry explains what happens as though he were some other patient. They analyze the mental breakdown in the third person; the doctor expected it. Lorry is of the opinion that the cobbling bench should be removed. The Doctor hesitantly agrees so Mr Lorry and Mrs Pross kill the cobbling bench.
Chapter 20 A Plea
Darnay and Lucie return and Carton comes to visit. He shows his sensitive side again, respectfully and humbly asking Darnay for the right to visit uninvited. Darnay accepts but speaks low of Carton that night, oblivious to his delicate side. Lucie asks him to show Carton more compassion.
Chapter 21 Echoing Footsteps
Eight years later, Darnay and Lucie have a daughter Lucie and a son who passed away. Stryver is married to a widow and has three sons. French unrest starts to affect the English characters, as Lorry complains of problems at Tellson’s. The Defarges lead the storming of the Bastille and as Monsieur searches the Doctor’s old cell, Madame beheads the governor. The mob is brutal.
Chapter 22 The Sea Still Rises
The Defarges learn one French noble who said peasants can eat grass escaped their grasp. Madame leads a Mob to capture him and then brutally murder him and his son, placing their head on sticks. The merciless mob people return home still hungry but now hopeful too.
Chapter 23 Fire Rises
A revolutionary arrives to the road mender’s home in the country. They organize a mob of people who burn the Evremonde estate. The mob and soldiers ignore the Gabelle (tax collectors) pleas for help and try to attack him as he hides in his house. The fire wind spreads.
Chapter 24 Drawn to the Loadstone Rock
Dickens gives an update on France’s status after 3 years. Tellson’s has become refugee camp for French nobles and center of news from France. Youthful spirit Lorry decides to leave for France. Stryver unknowingly insults Darnay (the marquis) to his face and after opening a letter, Darnay decides to leave for France.
Book 3
Chapter 1 In Secret
Darnay arrives in France and is stopped and “escorted” past burnt countryside (still no food) to a revolutionary court. They place him in La Force prison ‘in secret’. Deafarge refuses to even pass the message to lorry. After encountering very normal seeming citizens inside, he is isolated and starts to be driven mad.
Chapter 2 The Grindstone
Lorry, in Tellson’s paris branch, ironically thanks god that nobody dear to him is caught in the violence when Lucie and the Doctor arrive with news of Darnay’s fate. An evil mob comes to sharpen their weapons and the Doctor goes outside and, after revealing his identity, convinces them to save Darnay.
Chapter 3 The Shadow
Monsieur Defarge arrives to Lorry with a message from the Doctor. Lorry suspicously takes him to Lucie where Madame Defarge and The Vengeance join. Lucie begs Madame for mercy but she takes no pity; rather, she hints that she may have registered Lucie and little Lucie.
Chapter 4 Calm in Storm
The Reign of Terror begins. The Doctor describes the bipolar nature of the courts and that he managed to ensure Darnay’s safety (though still in prison). The Doctor and Lucie switch positions as he takes the lead. Dickens satirizes the guillotine as above even Christianity.
Chapter 5 The Wood-sawyer
La guillotine wants Darnay’s head. Lucie becomes old and weathered, yet still pretty. She faithfully waits for two hours per day outside Darnay’s cell. Samson the woodcutter pretends to execute Lucie and little Lucie; she bribes him to leave them alone. A mob dances by (Carmagnole), scaring Lucie, and Doctor Manette announces Darnay has a trial tomorrow.
Chapter 6 Triumph
Darnay presents his case the court who, like the Old Bailey, wants to see him dead. Like Lucie with the Old Bailey, the Doctor brings the mob to tears and convinces them to save Darnay. They cheer at his release, except the Defarges (still registered?). He and Lucie pray as the reunite and weep.
Chapter 7 A Knock at the Door
Lucie is scared for Darnay while their family is reunited again. Miss Pross and Jerry leave together for errands, which they do at various small stores to avoid attention. Four men arrive and arrest Darnay again- the defarges have accused him.
Chapter 8 A Hand at Cards
Miss Pross and Jerry enter a secluded wine shop where they find Solomon, who turns out to be Basard. Carton, now confident, blackmails Basard into Tellson’s, where he, in front of Lorry, plays his ace card (Basard and Cly are spies) and gets a pass to see Darnay once in prison. Jerry is also has gravedigger knowledge.
Chapter 9 The Game Made
Lorry scolds Jerry for being a gravedigger. Lorry cries as all that has happened catches up to him, but Carton comforts him saying his is like a father. Carton feels his life has been useless still. He leaves and recites the bible verse repeatedly “I am the resurrection and the life,” then stops at a chemist's shop. At the trial, the Defarges reveal a letter from Doctor Manette saying he accuses Darnay.
Chapter 10 The Substance of the Shadow
Doctor Manette, while young, was summoned by Evremonde twins to clean up their mess of a murdered boy, raped girl, and father with a heart attack. After Charles's mother stops by pledging her son to make right the family brutality, the Doctor is captured and imprisoned trying to report the Evremondes to court. He denounces Evremonde family so court kills Darnay (in sentence).
Chapter 11 Dusk
Lucie and Doctor Manette are both devastated by Darnay’s death sentence as they embrace on last time. Carton guides them home and comforts Lucie who begs him for help. After commanding the Doctor to attempt saving Darnay once more, Carton and Lorry agree he has no hope.
Chapter 12 Darkness
Carton visits the Defarges wine shop where he overhears Madame Defarge convince her husband and the three Jacques's the entire Evremonde family must pay, as hers did. Carton returns to Lucie and a shoe cobbling Doctor who failed. Carton instructs Lorry to prepare the family for departure.
Chapter 13 Fifty-two
Darnay struggles to sleep as he writes goodbye letters. Carton arrives and tricks Darnay into writing himself a letter, switch clothes, and drugs him. They switch places and Carton is taken to 52 prisoners awaiting execution- only one girl identifies him as false Evremonde. Lucie and company pass the gate with Darnay.
Chapter 14 The Knitting Done
Madame Defarge will accuse Lucie and the Doctor, after going to their house. Jerry promises to stop beating his wife and digging graves. Mrs. Pross and Madame Defarge, despite the language barrier, brawl it out. Defarge pulls out a gun which fires on her and make Mrs. Pross deaf for good.
Chapter 15 The Footsteps Die Out Forever
As carts take the 52 to la Guillotine, people barely take notice except of Evremonde, who is focused solely on the girl. They discuss heavenly matters and love. Carton has a vision of hope for France and for Lucie, Darnay, and the Doctor, as well as the afterlife and his name living on.
Chapter 1 The Period
Dickens emphasizes the juxtaposition of the poor, suffering peasants and the wealthy aristocrats in France. He also describes the ineffective, corrupt justice system in England and how it leads to crime and fear. He touches on fate and death, symbolized by the Woodman and the Farmer.
Chapter 2 The Mail
A mail coach climbs a hill during the night and all the passengers are uneasy and fearful of highwaymen. Jerry Cruncher rides up on a horse with a message for a passenger: Mr Lorry. The message says to wait at Dover for a woman and he replies “Recalled to Life.”
Chapter 3 The Night Shadows
Lorry imagines digging up the man from the grave after his 18 years of death and repeatedly simulates a conversation in his head asking whether the man wishes to be alive. Dickens also emphasizes the secrecy of the individual and how one can never be truly understood.
Chapter 4 The Preparation
Mr Lorry relaxes in the lounge and takes a stroll on the beach as he waits for Lucie. When she arrives, he introduces himself as a man of business but discusses his loving act of bringing Lucie to england 18 years ago and that he is to do the same with Doctor Manette. Red Mrs Pross also comes and screams at Mr Lorry.
Chapter 5 The Wine-Shop
Outside a wine shop in St Antionette there is chaos over spilled wine, after which people resume life as normal despite the word “blood” stained on the wall. Inside, Madame Defarge knits in the corner as Monsieur Defarge sends Lucie, Lorry, and the three ‘Jacques’ upstairs to a secret room. There, they find Doctor Manette cobbling shoes
Chapter 6 The Shoemaker
Doctor Manette is distant and hopeless, muttering only the number of his prison cell. Lucie, however, brings him to tears with her golden hair. They smuggle Doctor Manette out of France and Lorry asks him if wants to be recalled to life; he answers “I can’t say.”
Book 2
Chapter 1 Five Years Later
Tellson's Bank is described as a perfectly old and inconvenient place. Jerry Cruncher is characterized as drunk and angry, as he abuses his wife for praying. Dickens foreshadows his grave digging with the rust on Cruncher’s hands.
Chapter 2 A Sight
Jerry delivers a message to Mr Lorry in the Old Baily, where charles Darnay is on trial for treason. The court wants to see him quartered, except Lucie, who touches the crowd’s heart with her expression of compassion.
Chapter 3 A Disappointment
The attorney general states the accusation of Darnay as a spy using the two ‘patriot’ witnesses, John Basard and Roger Cly. Stryver discredits the witnesses, but ends up winning the case after Carton points out his own resemblance to Darnay. Lucie also describes Darnay’s kindness to her on the ship to England and Carton takes interest in Lucie too.
Chapter 4 Congratulatory
Mr Stryver congratulates himself on the verdict as everyone else congratulates Darnay’s resurrection. Carton and Darnay to out to dinner where Darnay thanks the drunk Carton who is characterized and imagines all that he could have been through Darnay.
Chapter 5 The Jackal
Carton is characterized further as he works “with” (more like for) the arrogant lion, Stryver. They discuss Stryver’s interest in Lucie, whom Carton pretends to dismiss. Carton, after drinking his sorry away returns home and cries himself to bed.
Chapter 6 Hundreds of People
Mr Lorry comes to visit the Manette home, where he engages Mrs Pross in a long conversation about Doctor Manette. Darnay, Carton, and Stryver come and Darnay recalls the word ‘dig’ and the burnt message found beneath a dungeon in the tower of London. After Dr Manette freaks out, they go inside where the echos of a storm foreshadow the coming revolution.
Chapter 7 Monseigneur In Town
Marquis Evremonde angrily leaves extravagant aristocratic party where he was not treated as god. He makes himself feel powerful by running over Gaspard’s baby in the street. Paying for the debt with one gold coin, Madame Defarge knits him in and Monsieur Defarge throws another gold coin back at him.
Chapter 8 Monseigneur In the Country
Marquis travels through the countryside where peasants are more submissive. They warn him of a stole away he brought from the town underneath his carriage. A woman begs for a stone for her husband, and tells the Marquis of the people’s suffering. Marquis Evremonde does not care.
Chapter 9 The Gorgon’s Head (Evil Greek Mythological head with snake hair, turns folk stone)
Marquis Evremonde eats dinner with his nephew Charles Darnay, who have a mutual hatred for each other. Marquis shows interest in Darnay’s relationship with the Manettes. Darnay leaves France and the family reputation of fear behind. The Marquis is discovered stone dead in the morning.
Chapter 10 Two Promises
Darnay is living as a French language tutor in England a year later; he talks to Doctor Manette about his love for Lucie and aspirations for marriage. He will not get between Lucie and the Doctor. The Doctor promises not to sway Lucie and Darnay not to reveal his French past; Doctor Manette is found cobbling that night.
Chapter 11 A Companion Picture
Mr Stryver announces he plans to give Lucie the gift of his marriage. He slowly breaks the news to Mr Carton, and his selfishness blinds him to the sarcastic replies of Mr Carton. Mr Carton drinks more sorrows away and Mr Stryver refuses to sacrifice his success.
Chapter 12 The Fellow of Delicacy
On his way to propose Stryver stops by Mr Lorry at Tellson’s. Stryver lets Lorry go first to find if Lucie would accept his proposal. Mr Lorry uses his business negotiation skills and closeness to the Manette family to carefully persuade arrogant Mr Stryver to abandon his aspirations.
Chapter 13 The Fellow of No Delicacy
Carton opens himself up to Lucie, stating that he is unworthy of her love, despite his deep love for her. She sparks dreams of what he could have become and he rejects Lucie’s proposal that there is still potential in him to aspire into more.
Chapter 14 An Honest Tradesman
A funeral procession passes Jerry Cruncher; a mob surrounds it yelling “spies!”, though nobody really knows why they are happy Roger Cly died. The mob also attacks businesses. That night, Mr Cruncher goes to dig up the coffin and his son follows. The son is terrified the coffin is following him so runs home and wakes up to Cruncher beating his mother; he also asks what a resurrection man is.
Chapter 15 Knitting
A Mender of Roads who witnessed Gaspard killing the Marquis meets with the Defarges and the three Jaques; he describes the brutal hanging above the village fountain. Mousiour Defarge mentions a petition to the King; Madame defarge knits the Evremonde family to “shrouds”. They take the Mender to a royal parade, where he cheers.
Chapter 16 Still Knitting
The Defarges learn of a new spy, John Barsad of england; he is knitted in. They acknowledge they could be dead when the lightning/earthquake revolution ignites. Basard comes into the wine shop and only gets a twitch out of Monsieur Defarge when mentioning Darnay and Lucie; Darnay gets knitted in!
Chapter 17 One Night
Dr Manette and Lucie talk emotionally about their life beneath a tree. The Doctor is so happy to see Lucie so happy and Lucy promises Darnay will not get between the two of them. Doctor Manette’s abandoning of that desire for vengeance while imprisoned has resulted in a great future ahead.
Chapter 18 Nine Days
Darnay and Lucie leave for vacation, but just before hand, Darnay tells the Doctor of his French heritage behind closed doors. He cobbles for 9 days and Mrs. Pross and Mr Lorry struggle to care for him. Mr Lorry even takes time away from Tellson’s for the first time in forever.
Chapter 19 An Opinion
Doctor Manette returns to sanity and Mr Lorry explains what happens as though he were some other patient. They analyze the mental breakdown in the third person; the doctor expected it. Lorry is of the opinion that the cobbling bench should be removed. The Doctor hesitantly agrees so Mr Lorry and Mrs Pross kill the cobbling bench.
Chapter 20 A Plea
Darnay and Lucie return and Carton comes to visit. He shows his sensitive side again, respectfully and humbly asking Darnay for the right to visit uninvited. Darnay accepts but speaks low of Carton that night, oblivious to his delicate side. Lucie asks him to show Carton more compassion.
Chapter 21 Echoing Footsteps
Eight years later, Darnay and Lucie have a daughter Lucie and a son who passed away. Stryver is married to a widow and has three sons. French unrest starts to affect the English characters, as Lorry complains of problems at Tellson’s. The Defarges lead the storming of the Bastille and as Monsieur searches the Doctor’s old cell, Madame beheads the governor. The mob is brutal.
Chapter 22 The Sea Still Rises
The Defarges learn one French noble who said peasants can eat grass escaped their grasp. Madame leads a Mob to capture him and then brutally murder him and his son, placing their head on sticks. The merciless mob people return home still hungry but now hopeful too.
Chapter 23 Fire Rises
A revolutionary arrives to the road mender’s home in the country. They organize a mob of people who burn the Evremonde estate. The mob and soldiers ignore the Gabelle (tax collectors) pleas for help and try to attack him as he hides in his house. The fire wind spreads.
Chapter 24 Drawn to the Loadstone Rock
Dickens gives an update on France’s status after 3 years. Tellson’s has become refugee camp for French nobles and center of news from France. Youthful spirit Lorry decides to leave for France. Stryver unknowingly insults Darnay (the marquis) to his face and after opening a letter, Darnay decides to leave for France.
Book 3
Chapter 1 In Secret
Darnay arrives in France and is stopped and “escorted” past burnt countryside (still no food) to a revolutionary court. They place him in La Force prison ‘in secret’. Deafarge refuses to even pass the message to lorry. After encountering very normal seeming citizens inside, he is isolated and starts to be driven mad.
Chapter 2 The Grindstone
Lorry, in Tellson’s paris branch, ironically thanks god that nobody dear to him is caught in the violence when Lucie and the Doctor arrive with news of Darnay’s fate. An evil mob comes to sharpen their weapons and the Doctor goes outside and, after revealing his identity, convinces them to save Darnay.
Chapter 3 The Shadow
Monsieur Defarge arrives to Lorry with a message from the Doctor. Lorry suspicously takes him to Lucie where Madame Defarge and The Vengeance join. Lucie begs Madame for mercy but she takes no pity; rather, she hints that she may have registered Lucie and little Lucie.
Chapter 4 Calm in Storm
The Reign of Terror begins. The Doctor describes the bipolar nature of the courts and that he managed to ensure Darnay’s safety (though still in prison). The Doctor and Lucie switch positions as he takes the lead. Dickens satirizes the guillotine as above even Christianity.
Chapter 5 The Wood-sawyer
La guillotine wants Darnay’s head. Lucie becomes old and weathered, yet still pretty. She faithfully waits for two hours per day outside Darnay’s cell. Samson the woodcutter pretends to execute Lucie and little Lucie; she bribes him to leave them alone. A mob dances by (Carmagnole), scaring Lucie, and Doctor Manette announces Darnay has a trial tomorrow.
Chapter 6 Triumph
Darnay presents his case the court who, like the Old Bailey, wants to see him dead. Like Lucie with the Old Bailey, the Doctor brings the mob to tears and convinces them to save Darnay. They cheer at his release, except the Defarges (still registered?). He and Lucie pray as the reunite and weep.
Chapter 7 A Knock at the Door
Lucie is scared for Darnay while their family is reunited again. Miss Pross and Jerry leave together for errands, which they do at various small stores to avoid attention. Four men arrive and arrest Darnay again- the defarges have accused him.
Chapter 8 A Hand at Cards
Miss Pross and Jerry enter a secluded wine shop where they find Solomon, who turns out to be Basard. Carton, now confident, blackmails Basard into Tellson’s, where he, in front of Lorry, plays his ace card (Basard and Cly are spies) and gets a pass to see Darnay once in prison. Jerry is also has gravedigger knowledge.
Chapter 9 The Game Made
Lorry scolds Jerry for being a gravedigger. Lorry cries as all that has happened catches up to him, but Carton comforts him saying his is like a father. Carton feels his life has been useless still. He leaves and recites the bible verse repeatedly “I am the resurrection and the life,” then stops at a chemist's shop. At the trial, the Defarges reveal a letter from Doctor Manette saying he accuses Darnay.
Chapter 10 The Substance of the Shadow
Doctor Manette, while young, was summoned by Evremonde twins to clean up their mess of a murdered boy, raped girl, and father with a heart attack. After Charles's mother stops by pledging her son to make right the family brutality, the Doctor is captured and imprisoned trying to report the Evremondes to court. He denounces Evremonde family so court kills Darnay (in sentence).
Chapter 11 Dusk
Lucie and Doctor Manette are both devastated by Darnay’s death sentence as they embrace on last time. Carton guides them home and comforts Lucie who begs him for help. After commanding the Doctor to attempt saving Darnay once more, Carton and Lorry agree he has no hope.
Chapter 12 Darkness
Carton visits the Defarges wine shop where he overhears Madame Defarge convince her husband and the three Jacques's the entire Evremonde family must pay, as hers did. Carton returns to Lucie and a shoe cobbling Doctor who failed. Carton instructs Lorry to prepare the family for departure.
Chapter 13 Fifty-two
Darnay struggles to sleep as he writes goodbye letters. Carton arrives and tricks Darnay into writing himself a letter, switch clothes, and drugs him. They switch places and Carton is taken to 52 prisoners awaiting execution- only one girl identifies him as false Evremonde. Lucie and company pass the gate with Darnay.
Chapter 14 The Knitting Done
Madame Defarge will accuse Lucie and the Doctor, after going to their house. Jerry promises to stop beating his wife and digging graves. Mrs. Pross and Madame Defarge, despite the language barrier, brawl it out. Defarge pulls out a gun which fires on her and make Mrs. Pross deaf for good.
Chapter 15 The Footsteps Die Out Forever
As carts take the 52 to la Guillotine, people barely take notice except of Evremonde, who is focused solely on the girl. They discuss heavenly matters and love. Carton has a vision of hope for France and for Lucie, Darnay, and the Doctor, as well as the afterlife and his name living on.